Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
CORMAC MCCARTHYProbably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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If only my heart were stone.
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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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